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by arh68 13y ago
Would you mind doing lots more screencasts? Maybe writing a jet, rigging a test, profiling, and maybe a bunch of other things. I very much like your demo style, and I have a hunch these docs are going to be pretty dense. ;)
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by arh68 13y ago
This approach strikes me as the most realistic. If there is an existing codebase in the preferred language A, the obvious question, if B wins, is "Do we rewrite the code in B?" The only downside, and I think adding the language C
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by arh68 13y ago
>inability to acquire new stuff or inability to focus due the large number of associations running out from each thought you have It's exactly this. In the active mind ( hyper active, perhaps), the dataset is ever increasing and the
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by arh68 13y ago
I went through a couple moleskines, cahiers too. Tried the Lamy Safari, the TWSBI, the Signo Bit, the Sliccis, etc. There's something to be admired there but I've moved on. Bic ballpoints on 32lb printer paper on a clipboard is si
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by arh68 13y ago
>Your landlord may elect not to offer a lease renewal. Funny you say that: I'm strongly considering buying, and my landlord elected to not offer a "heat pump renewal" when the A/C went out. Hello window units, goodbye
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by arh68 13y ago
I think you've got the right idea. The 'facts' of what-counters-what don't matter too much; it's the feedback mechanism that matters. When you see Player 2 do X, you use that info to play the best Y. Good scouting d
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by arh68 13y ago
I very much like the mwe-color-box.el example. Is something like that possible for backquoting? The quoting-levels would be much easier to see with nested background shading. I'll have to try it at home.
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by arh68 13y ago
> it might be fun to represent lisp code in a treemap Wow, yeah, that's a really interesting idea. Is there just one (good) way to map a codebase? Many? It seems like a bad idea at first glance, since the map shows, at any level, m
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by arh68 13y ago
Really? I just made the book and ordered it last night and the cover (the 13MB png) looked like it lined up exactly. The first cover-uploader had a 10MB limit but the other worked fine (not the design-your-own, the 1-piece-cover-designer).
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by arh68 13y ago
So is it horrible strictly because it's Java? Or because it's a bad idea altogether?
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by arh68 13y ago
You're right. What I was trying to say by Haskell programmer was more like an industry veteran. 10+ years experience in Haskell/etc, zero knowledge of pointer arithmetic. There seems to be this ineffable force tilting the scales
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by arh68 13y ago
If you don't teach a seven year old calculus, are you really teaching them math ? I understand you can't teach everything upfront; that's not my point. I remember my 5th grade class, where several people said they wanted t
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by arh68 13y ago
> The idea that imperative programming is "natural" is sort of a myth. Yes yes yes. I definitely agree. It's "sort of a myth," but it also sort of true. Zip is indeed quite simple, but it wouldn't make any
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by arh68 13y ago
> Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at So, as a young person who might end up in a bullshit job, what are the best ways to enjoy it
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by arh68 13y ago
> This is mostly because people try to treat higher order functional code as in fact just a fancy syntax. Writing higher-order functional code (code that creates, consumes, and modifies functions) requires a set of alternative disciplin
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by arh68 13y ago
> If you extend the thought, it's as if the machine disappears Indeed it does. How long was it after we discovered DNA that we discovered its 'machine', DNA polymerase? And in the end, what's more interesting?
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by arh68 13y ago
I'm not really sold on the whole idea, but this part is pretty creative > Demo Limitations > Cathode is free to use, but the picture will slowly degrade unless you purchase. Effects like static and flicker will increase over t
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by arh68 13y ago
> the agency’s internal definition of “data” does not cover “metadata” If I download terabytes of Wikipedia XML dumps, could I argue to my ISP I never actually downloaded any "data"?
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by arh68 13y ago
I did find this bit: // When calling .end(buffer) right away, this triggers a "hot path" // optimization in http.js, to avoid an extra write call. // // However, the overhead of co
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by arh68 13y ago
As much as the article conveys doubts to Karp's moral fortitude, at least one (former) engineer there is willing to speak his mind > He goes on to argue that even Palantir’s founders don’t quite understand the Palantiri seeing ston
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by arh68 13y ago
Most annoying is finding a huge, interesting comment page (200 comments), reading half of it, then coming back later to see 400 comments. No visual diff = scanning and scrolling. Searching the page for "minutes ago" shows me in-th
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by arh68 13y ago
Though it won't surprise you, OCaml development is very similar. You're right: it's like shining a UV light on my code and seeing all the type mismatch bugs.
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by arh68 13y ago
It's a 702 vs 215 distinction, right?
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by arh68 13y ago
An article worth re-reading now: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. (2008) [1]. The graphic shows (at the time) what percentage of regional Internet bandwidth passes into U.S. & Canada [2]: at the time, 70% of Latin American t
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by arh68 13y ago
> The policy parts, I don’t feel like I have a say in that. I don’t have a voice there. I know what I want to see happen. But I don’t feel like I have a say or a voice so I choose to be interested in the technology and think about where
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by arh68 13y ago
> and a 42u rack of servers for processing for those times when a guy needs several hundred gigs of ram/ECUs worth of proc power What on earth? Where do you stick that thing, in the garage?
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by arh68 13y ago
If Feynman were still around, he'd set things straight. I don't think a bicycle staying upright is much different from a train keeping course [1], but I can't describe why. Instead of the rail veering off and the wheel adapti
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by arh68 13y ago
Interesting, sure, but incredibly hard to create with an uncoordinated Internet community. It'd take 1 good programmer/writer, ideally. Without a clear, quantitative standard as to which Python* implementation is best, you'll
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by arh68 13y ago
I had trouble understanding this tutorial head-on, but it's much more digestible after some intro reading material ([2] will make a lot more sense after understanding Forth [3]). [1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm
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Even Udall & Wyden? I understand the clean-house sentiment, but do you deny them credit?

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